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Professor Hod Lipson is imagining a
future where robots can self-replicate and
even self-reflect, creating the technology
that can one day arm robots with a
conscience. In molecular engineering,
Tal Danino is engineering bacteria that
can find their way into a tumor, sense the
environment, and release a therapeutic
drug to selectively attack the tumor—but
not other tissue—in response. Electrical
engineer Christine Hendon is innovating
optical imaging techniques and coming up
with novel spectroscopy instruments to
provide heart surgeons with real-time data
as they operate.

As imaging and sensing technologies grow
in both sophistication and accessibility,
they do more than just gather data and
produce images: They are research tools
in their own right, providing scientists
with the means to deepen our knowledge
both about fundamental biological processes and
about causes and progression of disease.

The challenges of maintaining cybersecurity are
ever evolving. Computer scientists are working to fend off
breaches and attacks, and, here, two professors tackle that with two
distinct approaches—one focused on software security and the other on
preventing hardware hacks.